Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

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The Women's 100m at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entrylist of 64 competitors, with eight qualifying heats (64), four second-round races (32) and two semi-finals (16), before the final (8) took off on Sunday September 25, 1988.

Florence Griffith-Joyner had been a mystery in 1988. She had barely competed before the Olympic Trials, only running her personal best 10.89 into the wind in San Diego. Then at the trials she shocked the world by taking more than a quarter of a second out of Evelyn Ashford's world record and backing it up with three other races that were significantly faster than any other woman had ever run.[1] Her next races were at the Olympics and her ability was no longer a mystery. In the first round, her time was 10.88, a hundredth faster than she had run in San Diego, but it was the Olympic record, almost a tenth of a second faster than Ashford had run winning the gold four years earlier. In the quarter finals, Heike Drechsler beat Ashford's previous record in the first race, Ashford then equalled FloJo's record in the second, to share the Olympic record for about five minutes. Griffith-Joyner's quarterfinal 10.62 was the third fastest legal race in history and the fourth fastest under any conditions, behind only her own marks set in Indianapolis two months earlier at the Trials. In the semi finals, she matched her Indianapolis semi final time win a ho hum 10.70 that was still .06 faster than any other woman had ever run. Ashford and Drechsler were both under 11 seconds and Anelia Nuneva ran 11 seconds exactly to put them in the center of the track.

Previously known as a 200 metre runner without a spectacular start, Griffith-Joyner had been working to improve her start and just like in Indianapolis, she had the lead by the second time she put her foot on the ground. The surprise was that she did not break away from the pack. Nuneva, who had run her personal best of 10.85 just three weeks earlier, was giving serious chase. But 70 metres into the race her hamstring popped and she was painfully unable to move it, but she was still running at full speed, so she struggled to maintain her balance. Meanwhile Griffith-Joyner had clearly separated from the field, crossing the finish almost three tenths of a second ahead of Ashford who just edged Drechsler.

The wind in the race was +3.0 m/ps, significantly over the allowable. Still, Griffith-Joyner's 10.54 was and remains the second fastest under any conditions,[2] behind her own world record and its associated questionable wind reading.

Records

These were the standing World and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics.

World Record 10.49 United States Florence Griffith-Joyner Indianapolis (USA) July 16, 1988
Olympic Record 10.97 United States Evelyn Ashford Los Angeles (USA) August 5, 1984

The following Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date Athlete Time OR WR
September 24, 1988  Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) 10.88s OR
September 24, 1988  Evelyn Ashford (USA) 10.88s =OR
September 24, 1988  Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) 10.62s OR

Final

Wind+3.0

RANK FINAL TIME
 Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) 10.54w
 Evelyn Ashford (USA) 10.83w
 Heike Drechsler (GDR) 10.85w
4.  Grace Jackson (JAM) 10.97w
5.  Gwen Torrence (USA) 10.97w
6.  Natalia Pomoshchnikova (URS) 11.00w
7.  Juliet Cuthbert (JAM) 11.26w
8.  Anelia Nuneva (BUL) 11.49w

Semi finals

RANK HEAT 1 TIME
1.  Evelyn Ashford (USA) 10.99
2.  Anelia Nuneva (BUL) 11.00
3.  Gwen Torrence (USA) 11.02
4.  Juliet Cuthbert (JAM) 11.10
5.  Silke Gladisch-Moller (GDR) 11.12
6.  Marlies Göhr (GDR) 11.13
7.  Lyudmila Kondratyeva (URS) 11.21
8.  Marina Zhirova (URS) 11.24


RANK HEAT 2 TIME
1.  Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) 10.70
2.  Heike Drechsler (GDR) 10.91
3.  Natalia Pomoshchnikova (URS) 11.03
4.  Grace Jackson (JAM) 11.06
5.  Ulrike Sarvari (FRG) 11.12
6.  Pauline Davis (BAH) 11.12
7.  Nelli Cooman (NED) 11.13
–  Merlene Ottey (JAM) DNS

Quarter finals

RANK HEAT 1 TIME
1.  Heike Drechsler (GDR) 10.96
2.  Merlene Ottey (JAM) 11.03
3.  Ulrike Sarvari (FRG) 11.16
4.  Pauline Davis (BAH) 11.21
5.  Angela Bailey (CAN) 11.29
6.  Els Scharn (NED) 11.51
7.  Tian Yumei (CHN) 11.55
8.  Françoise Leroux (FRA) 11.75


RANK HEAT 2 TIME
1.  Evelyn Ashford (USA) 10.88
2.  Natalia Pomoishchnikova (URS) 10.98
3.  Marlies Göhr (GDR) 10.99
4.  Nelli Cooman (NED) 11.08
5.  Angella Issajenko (CAN) 11.27
6.  Joanna Smolarek (POL) 11.35
7.  Angela Williams (TRI) 11.45
8.  Amparo Caicedo (COL) 11.65


RANK HEAT 3 TIME
1.  Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) 10.62
2.  Juliet Cuthbert (JAM) 11.03
3.  Lyudmila Kondratyeva (URS) 11.05
4.  Silke Möller (GDR) 11.10
5.  Simmone Jacobs (GBR) 11.31
6.  Laurence Bily (FRA) 11.35
7.  Andrea Thomas (FRG) 11.37
8.  Dinah Yankey (GHA) 11.63


RANK HEAT 4 TIME
1.  Anelia Nuneva (BUL) 10.96
2.  Gwen Torrence (USA) 10.99
3.  Grace Jackson (JAM) 11.13
4.  Marina Zhirova (URS) 11.14
5.  Paula Dunn (GBR) 11.37
6.  Kerry Johnson (AUS) 11.42
7.  Sabine Richter (FRG) 11.59
8.  Julie Rocheleau (CAN) 11.75

Heats

RANK HEAT 1 TIME
1.  Anelia Nuneva (BUL) 11.09
2.  Grace Jackson (JAM) 11.18
3.  Paula Dunn (GBR) 11.39
4.  Tian Yumei (CHN) 11.56
5.  Voula Patoulidou (GRE) 11.85
6.  Melvina Vulah (LBR) 12.16
7.  Félicite Bada (BEN) 12.27
8.  Farida Kyakutewa (UGA) 12.32


RANK HEAT 2 TIME
1.  Pauline Davis (BAH) 11.20
2.  Nelli Cooman (NED) 11.22
3.  Marlies Göhr (GDR) 11.22
4.  Jolanta Janota (POL) 11.71
5.  Sandy Myers (ESP) 11.86
6.  Méryem Oumezdi (MAR) 11.90
7.  Yvette Bonapart (SUR) 12.27
8.  Aminata Diarra (MLI) 12.27


RANK HEAT 3 TIME
1.  Gwen Torrence (USA) 11.12
2.  Lyudmila Kondratyeva (URS) 11.19
3.  Laurence Bily (FRA) 11.34
4.  Amparo Caicedo (COL) 11.59
5.  Marisa Masullo (ITA) 11.71
6.  Ewa Pisiewicz (POL) 11.84
7.  Ng Ka Yee (HKG) 12.18
8.  Jabou Jawo (GAM) 12.27


RANK HEAT 4 TIME
1.  Juliet Cuthbert (JAM) 11.14
2.  Silke Möller (GDR) 11.27
3.  Els Scharn (NED) 11.38
4.  Sabine Richter (FRG) 11.49
5.  Françoise Leroux (FRA) 11.58
6.  Lydia de Vega (PHI) 11.67
7.  Guilhermina da Cruz (ANG) 12.47
8.  Erin Tierney (COK) 12.52


RANK HEAT 5 TIME
1.  Evelyn Ashford (USA) 11.10
2.  Marina Zhirova (URS) 11.22
3.  Joanna Smolarek (POL) 11.43
4.  Andrea Thomas (FRG) 11.46
5.  Julie Rocheleau (CAN) 11.60
6.  Gaily Dube (ZIM) 12.07
7.  Claudia Acerenza (URU) 12.11
8.  Judith Diankoléla-Missengué (CGO) 12.14


RANK HEAT 6 TIME
1.  Natalia Pomoshchnikova (URS) 11.11
2.  Heike Drechsler (FRG) 11.15
3.  Simmone Jacobs (GBR) 11.56
4.  Angela Williams (TRI) 11.62
5.  Liu Shaomei (CHN) 11.66
6.  Lee Yeong-Suk (KOR) 11.74
7.  Joyce Odhiambo (KEN) 11.90
8.  Mariama Ouiminga (BUR) 12.62


RANK HEAT 7 TIME
1.  Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) 10.88
2.  Kerry Johnson (AUS) 11.44
3.  Angela Bailey (CAN) 11.61
4.  Patricia Girard (FRA) 11.65
5.  Zhang Caihua (CHN) 11.84
6.  Gisèle Ongollo (GAB) 11.85
7.  Chen Ya-Li (TPE) 12.16
8.  Evelyn Farrell (ARU) 12.48


RANK HEAT 8 TIME
1.  Merlene Ottey (JAM) 11.03
2.  Ulrike Sarvari (FRG) 11.26
3.  Angella Issajenko (CAN) 11.42
4.  Dinah Yankey (GHA) 11.64
5.  Rossella Tarolo (ITA) 11.86
6.  Helen Miles (GBR) 11.88
7.  Olivette Daruhi (VAN) 13.00
8.  Mala Sakonhninhom (LAO) 15.12

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/1988-07-24/sports/sp-10191_1_world-record
  2. ↑ http://www.alltime-athletics.com/w_100no.htm
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